Resurrection is the law of nature and death is the prerequisite.

 Resurrection is the law of nature and death is the prerequisite.

 Resurrection is the law of nature and death is the prerequisite. This law is written in the nature even before sin entered mankind. This truth may be hard to understand and accept but nevertheless it is an indisputable truth. What I am saying is this – God thought of death, resurrection and glorification before Adam and Eve had sinned. This can be substantiated very easily.

   If we study the first chapter of Genesis we see that God created vegetation with a law that the trees will produce fruit containing the seeds that can reproduce the plants of their own species. We find this law in Genesis 1:11. God said “let the land produce vegetation, seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds”.

   Did you notice what God said? God is saying that trees will produce seeds which will be planted in the land to produce another tree and the cycle will go on. “What is so great or new about it?” you may ask. We must recollect what Paul said in 1Corinthians 15th chapter about reproduction of vegetation. He says “someone may ask ‘how are the dead raised? With what kind of body will they come?’ How foolish! WHAT YOU SOW DOES NOT COME TO LIFE UNLESS IT DIES!”(35, 36).

   Even if Adam and Eve had not fallen in sin, God commanded Adam to ‘cultivate’ the Garden of Eden (Genesis 2:15 TEV). The word cultivation means sowing seeds and growing new plants. Before his very eyes Adam would see millions of seeds dying in the ground and coming back to life, increased and multiplied hundreds of times. That is the reason I said that death, resurrection and glorification is one of the fundamental laws of nature.

   Many of us would covet the glorious experience of a powerful Christian life filled with the power of resurrection of Jesus Christ. Having such a desire is highly commendable and appreciable but we must remember that we have to die in order to experience the wonderful power of resurrection. This is the law reiterated by our Lord Jesus in John 12:24 – “I tell you the truth, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed. But if it dies it produces many seeds”.

   We must experience the death of Christ if we want to enjoy the power of His resurrection. We must die to sin, to the world and to our ‘self’. This is difficult but imperative. We will all be resurrected or glorified at the second coming of our Lord but God wants each one of us to have a foretaste of that future glorification in the present phase of our life itself and willingness to die is a must for that glorious experience. Let us seek the help of the Holy Spirit to be like the kernel of wheat!